Embrace of the Serpent (2015) – Film Analysis | Soldiers of Cinema Podcast
Update: 2025-06-04
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Embrace of the Serpent
Hosts: Clark Coffey & Cullen McFater
This week we discuss the 2015 international film, Embrace of the Serpent, directed by Ciro Guerra. This beautifully shot black and white film was inspired by the travel diaries of Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes and tells the story of two journeys made thirty years apart by the indigenous shaman Karamakate in the Colombian Amazonian jungle, one with Theo, a German ethnographer, and the other with Evan, an American botanist, both of whom are searching for the rare plant yakruna.
Director: Ciro Guerra
Starring: Jan Bijvoet
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